DX7 VS Tx81z Lately Bass

Placer Garden

A Little Late Night

One of my earliest tracks, quite terrible really but still. MDUW and Spectralis

Light Bender - Randomizer

Ballet av Nordyls or Ballet of Northern Lights is based on a time lapse film I was watching of the Northern Lights. I was trying to keep time with the amazing shifts and slow languid turns the lights were making in the sky which in part is represented by the phrenetic drums, slow melodic movements and punctuated by quick snippets of sound.

Ballett Av Nordlys

Almost Spring

Demoing P10 & P6, drums & piano sampled through ISLA S2400

Prophet 10, 6, ISLA S2400 House demo

2 Nord lead 2 doing a cover of J. M. Jarre Equinoxe 5

EQUINOXE 5 cover with 2 NL2 by Matthew Charlton

Just mucking about with the new studio set up... far from polished.  

Back to Hardware (mucking about) MS20 Juno 60 Kurzweil DX7

This is just outside my music studio in the forest.  

Varied Thrush

Funk You I know it's all funked up! JD990 kurzweil Juno 60 SixTrak

Omnisixmoogyrhodes thing

Mango

Shruthi Repliknt

Moog and friends

Polysix Disco

Lovely Synth Sequence 1

Prophet 6 sounds

Dx7 Lives  Dx7 Moog Voyager

Prophet 6, Dominion 1, FM8, Imposcar, MS20, Serum

09XZEX Prophet 6, MFB Dominion 1, Xfer Serum, Imposcar, FM8

working with blocks and metaphysical functions

When You Reakt Reaktor 6 blocks

Kurz And Nord Sequence

Prophet 6 Juno 60 JD990

Evolving (Kurzweil K2661)

Monoevolver and Roland D550

Vex Incident

Lechwe (Draft)

Live Jam session with Flute and JD990 mellotron overdubbing MKS80 and Juno 60.

Lacrimose 2011

Equinoxe 3 Nord Lead 2

Equinoxe 4 Nord Lead 2

Six Trak and new Bass guitar

CS80 bells

demoing the mono/poly and cs80 together in the studio with Saturday Index & Instruments øf flight

CS80 & Korg Mono/poly

Ecstatics Make the Engine

Instruments of Flight is an electronic musician currently based in Northern California, she produces tracks that are suffused with a halcyon, west-coast sensibility. The sound, like the artist, is suspended somewhere between southern California suburbia and cosmopolitan leanings. It’s the sound of British new wave half-remembered from a childhood spent in Long Beach. Or maybe it’s the house-fueled soundtrack of the Castro, transplanted to the lonely stretches of beach north of Santa Cruz. 

Born to a tenor and oboe player IOF was definitely subjected to piano lessons growing up.  She's played a variety of other instruments as well but always favored effects laden instrumentation.  4AD, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel are cited as deeply influential to the point of being unable to separate the sounds from the experience of growing up.  As a producer, she brings to the studio a discriminating ear and an uncompromising approach to sound quality. The music she grew up listening to on iconic LA stations, such as KCRW and KROQ, kindled what became an obsession with sound design and synthesis. The elements of pop, dance, and ambient will be immediately familiar to anyone with an ear for electronica, no instrument or source is off limits though clearly favoring synthetic sources she also draws from found sound and field recordings.   Instruments of Flight reworks them and fashions them into something evocatively different.  It’s as if you’re hearing things you thought you knew, only to discover that they sound somehow better filtered through salt air and Pacific sunsets.

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